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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EvilBunnyPottymouth ("Evil Bunny Pottymouth") wrote:
from Kamala’s Wins
BREAKING: In a stunning new leak, this photo of Donald Trump and Kevin Roberts (the author of Project 2025) flying in Trump’s private jet has surfaced. Retweet to make sure everyone knows these two are inextricably linked.
#Project2025
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
coreyspowell ("Corey S Powell") wrote:
Computer models designed to simulate slime molds (left) turn out to be exceptionally good at simulating the large-scale structure of the universe (right).
Similar network patterns appear across scales differing by 30 orders of magnitude!
https://newsroom.nmsu.edu/news/nmsu-astronomy-research-uses-slime-mold-to-model-galaxies/s/136ea12b-091a-4240-9de2-389026ef37f3#space #science #nature #astronomy
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Free_Press@mstdn.social ("Aure Free Press :verified:") wrote:
Special counsel Jack Smith, stymied at every turn by federal courts from putting Donald Trump on trial, is about to submit his most compelling evidence that the former president conspired to derail the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 election.
Whether the public sees it before the 2024 election rests with U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breakinghttps://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/26/jack-smith-trump-investigation-dossier-00181108
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“… the year 1877 sits right in the midst of the crisis of the accelerating industrialization of America…”
and I think the year 2024 sits somewhere in the midst of a modern crisis of the accelerating development of [whatever history ends up calling] the information economy of 21st century America (currently probably at about 10-15% of US GDP)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
paul@tapbots.social ("Paul Haddad :tapbots_logo:") wrote:
Progress?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
re-reading “1877: America’s Year of Living Violently”… there are some powerful parallels between that (post Civil War) era & these times, I think.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“Taxation, gentlemen, is very much like dairy farming. The task is to extract the maximum amount of milk with the minimum of moo.”
- from ‘Jingo’ by Terry Pratchett
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
our fabulous furry friend Mookie is visiting
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Put some spikes on the bird feeder to deter the squirrels, and all that I have accomplished is creating a local society of smarter, more cooperative squirrels.
Five minutes after filling it up, Squirrel Robin Hood here is hanging off the side, shovelling it all out into the ground for his friends who are eating well.
There’s a metaphor in here somewhere, I’m sure.
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
Me to anyone who will listen this week
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
anatudor ("Ana Tudor 🐯") wrote:
Yet another one of those @codepen demos I made over half a decade ago, back when only Chromium browsers supported animating #CSS variables (and only behind a flag 🚩)
codepen.io/thebabydino/pen/qzxpJK
As of this summer, it's cross-browser! No flags required or anything! ✨
#code #coding #cssVariables #frontend #web #webDev #webDevelopment #dev
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
RickiTarr@beige.party ("Ricki Jorkin Depeanus Tarr") wrote:
Sometimes, people make fun of guys for doing stuff like this, but I think it's way more cool to do something you are passionate about, that is actually constructive, than buying guns for a self-created Apocalypse and harassing women online, because they won't have sex with them.
Nerds rule!
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lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social ("Low Quality Facts") wrote:
The year is 2025. Kamala Harris is president. You have $200 in your bank account. When you deposit an additional $99,999,800 Kamala will begin to tax your unrealized capital gains. Your fist clenches. The communists have won.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arstechnica ("Ars Technica") wrote:
OpenAI plans tectonic shift from nonprofit to for-profit, giving Altman equity
Under plans that have attracted criticism, shift may give Altman 7% equity in the firm.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
c0debabe@hackers.town ("c0debabe, mapache") wrote:
Just ordered my free test kits.
Get you some!
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The CDW page for it is LOLSOB; just loading it errors out half the time for me, and it has no specs. Or photos. Incredible.
https://www.cdw.com/product/asus-nb-14-u5-115u-512-16gb-chrome/7948064?pfm=srh
Anyway, the model number you're looking for is "CX5403CMA-DB562-T". Good luck, I guess?
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Y'all, they finally made a fast-ish Chromebook with a decent-looking screen, but they didn't tell anyone and you can't buy it direct 🤦
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josephcox@infosec.exchange ("Joseph Cox") wrote:
- man walks again after buying $100,000 exoskeleton
- a battery in the watch that controls it dies (presumably cheap to replace)
- company refuses
- right to repair is coming for exeskeletons
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
modern cave panther
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
flexghost ("flexghost.") wrote:
Rudy Giuliani is now permanently disbarred in DC
Happy Thursday 🇺🇸
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25175451-in-re-giuliani-21-bg-0423
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jgkoomey@mastodon.energy ("Jonathan Koomey") wrote:
Good read on polling problems. Human choices aren’t really predictable, but a lot of people cling to the false notion that if only they had more data, more graduate students, more funding, more coffee, or a more sophisticated model that it would become possible. Nope. https://prospect.org/politics/2024-09-25-polling-imperilment/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"On Monday night a white-haired, 78-year-old man clambered up onto stage and declared himself to be “cognitively very strong”, before then comparing himself to Winston Churchill, inventing a Shakespeare quote, and making an impassioned call for the return to television of a comedian who died nearly 20 years ago. The man wasn’t my dad after six pints of Boddingtons. It was Donald Trump, who could soon become the most powerful person in the world."
Adam Gabbatt, TheGuardian
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oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphantom Menace") wrote:
Nice follow request from TotallyNotASpammer@open.registration.social
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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
as my Dad used to say: there are times when sitting on the fence just means that they will lay the barbed wire through you.
I hope Walz has learned from that experience, & that Harris also learned from Obama's futile struggles to find compromise with Congresscritters who were never going to do so.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I've never heard a storm in Minnesota described as "unsurvivable", but hey, Florida, you do you.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Be like Sphen and Magic. Don't be like Abraham and David.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Computational Power and AI - AI Now Institute:
"“It enables dominant firms to extract rents from consumers and small businesses dependent on their services, and creates systemic harms when systems fail or malfunction due to the creation of single points of failure. Most concerningly, it expands the economic and political power of the firms that have access to compute, cementing the control of firms that already dominate ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/09/26/computational-power-and.html
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DJDarren@mendeddrum.org wrote:
I agree with every word of this.
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GuerillaOntologist@social.coop ("Josh Davis") wrote:
When the percussionist is the band leader, there are going to be three drum solos in every song 😎
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
I've so far asked the IACR Board of Directors three times whether they're planning to write a statement expressing sympathy to the mass murder that's happening in Lebanon, with over 600 deaths (including 50 children) in the past three days.
I haven't received a response, despite the IACR having published a statement expressing support with Israel less than two weeks after Hamas's attack last year.
The IACR was correct in issuing a statement condemning what happened in Israel last October, but has repeatedly refused issuing a similar statement about Gaza, settling only for a minor edit, and now is outright ignoring all requests for a similar statement about Lebanon, a country that never invaded Israel or took any hostages to begin with.
Some IACR members expressed interest in signing a "well-worded petition" regarding this matter.
I've written one here and will be sending it to the IACR Board of Directors in a few days. If you're interested in signing, please either reply to this tweet or send an email to n@nadim.email.
Petition: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e2HDOC0K_K9v1BoycIg4sCeJbBWHOdfSmBTyz38RrIc
